ptioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, coronavirus countermeasures-- senate republicans and the white house proposto curtail jobless benefits despite a historically high unemployment rate. then, use of force-- the deployment of more federal agents in multiple american cities prompts nationwide protests against their presence. and, 30 years after-- we examine disabilities act hash accomplished: its successes and the many challenges that remain. >> granting rights and really being able to be accepted by society is something that we're still striving for. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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deadline for federal jobless benefits to expire. reports say the republican bill cuts them from $600 a weekto $200. we'll get the details, after the news summary. final-stage trials got under wao vaccine study so far.d the first of 30,0 volunteers were dosed at sites around the u.s. the vaccine was developed at record speed by the national institutes of health a drugmaker moderna. but, the head of the food and drug administratn promised >> although we have gone at significant speed to get to thij point, o at f.d.a. and our solemn promise to the american people is that we will judge based upon the date and the gold standard we have at f.d.a. regarding safety and efficacy of the vaccine. to commit to no is white house involvement in

vaccines development. meanwhile, the white house confirmed today that national security adviser robert o'brien has the virus and is self- isolating.sa president trum today he had not seen o'brien lately. major league baseball also has an outbreak, just days after finally beginning its season. the miami marlins called off to reports that at least 14 players have covid-19. that, in turn, forced cancellation othe new york yankees' game tonight in philadelphia, where miami played over the weekend. the body of civil rights icon and georgia congressn john lewis has arrived in washington for one last time. a motorcade carried his casket into the city today, stopping at the martin luther king junior almorial, the lincoln memo and the "black lives matter plaza" near the white house. later, in the capitol rotunda,r house speancy pelosi led the tributes to lewis.

>> he understood the power of young people to change the future. who is 19 or 20 yed, theuld do age that he was when he set out to desegregate nashville, lewis replied, a young person should be speaking out for whats fairat s just what is right. >> woodruff: the expected democratic presidential nominee, joe paying final respects. lewis will lie in state through tomorrow. six american cities are appealing to congress to bar deployments of federal agents. mayors of albuquerque, chicago, kansas city, portland, oregon, seattle and washington, d.c. made that request today. it followed new violence in portland and other cities over the weekend. we'll return to this, later in the program. south texas and northern mexico faced more rain and flooding today from remnants of hurricane "hanna."

the storm made landfall saturd near port mansfield, texas as a category 1 storm. it wrecked boats, tore up marinas and flooded communities near corpus christi. more than 200,000 customers lost power, i hit by covid-19.hard narrowly missed hawaii onuglas" sunday, sweeping just north of the islands. the storm brought heavy rain to maui and piled up massive waves off honolulu. but no major damage was reported. in china, the u.s. consulate in the western city of chengdu officially closed today. .sit's retaliation for the shutting down china's consulate in houston.ch ese authorities entered the inw-empty chengdu consulat protective gear, while onlookers lamented the ring tensions with the u.s. >> ( translated ): we are all tedinary chinese citizens, but i still pay great ion to the

relationship between china and the u.s. because we need to go and travel in the u.s. and some of our relatives need to go and study in the u.s., these things will all be greatly affected, including the economy between the o countries will gradual deteriorate and even break apart. >> woodruff: the u.s. has four other consulates in china. civilian cualties in afghanistan are down 13% so far this year, froe same period last year. the united natio reports the total killed and wounded was just short of 3,500 through june. it's due in part to fewer attacks by international forcesd since a u.s. wwal agreement with the taliban. back in this country, lawyers for president trump are trying again to block the release of his tax returns. they asked a federal court inrk new oday to quash a subpoena from the manhattan distric aattorney. thued it is too broad. the u.s. supreme court rejected

an earlier claim that the president is immune from a criminal subpoena. there's word that google will let employees work from home until at least next july. today's decision affects nearly, 0 employees and contract workers.ee and, on wall st, stocks started the week on an upbeat note. the dow jones dustrial average gained 114 points to close at 26,584. the nasdaq rose 173 points, and, the s&p 500 added 23. a moment ago, i meant to say the florida marlins when reporting the baseball story. my alogy. still to still to come on the newshour: the senate and white house propose a plan to curtail jobless benets. more federal agents in american cities prompts nationwide otests. we examine the successes and americans with disities act.

plus much more. en>> woodruff: it has onths since the last coronavirus relief bill and the extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits are set to expire on friday. that is leaving millions of americans in lim as congress debates what comes next. today, republica unveiled their proposed bill. our lisa desjardins is here to explain how close congress is to a deal.th lisa is all happening late in the day, after days of ublicansments, rep finally giving some public specifics. what are you hearing? >> that's right. just in the last hour,

judy, republicans have unveiled their specific proposals and legislative texts as we spea, leader mcconnell is at the microphone, explaining it toanreporters. iell you a little about what is in it. they are proposingct diayment checks for most americans of $1rs,200 a , there will be an extra amount if you have ast collegent, and in this bill, there will be additional money for schools. i'm we'll be talking about that for the next couofple ays, and as well as some money for unemployment benefits that think is important dissect. and republicans are pushing lbility protection so thates busine would be harder to -- it would be harptd to suharderto sue them for anytg related to the coronavirus. >> woodruff: lisa, tell us a little more what they're saying about these extended unemploymentbenefits. it had been an additional $600 a week, and the democrats wanted that to continue. now we're hearing from republicans, what prepared to do.

>> lisa: this is so important. it will affect 20 million americans. let's look at what we're talking about. y said, judy, right now there are $600 per week in added benefits because of the pandemic. however, republicans would change that in their proposal to $200 perweek instead, and they would that to 70% of wageshange instead of that $200 flat rate. and for some people that 70% will be more, especially if you're higher income. for other people, it will be less than $200 if you're lower income. the republicans in general say their philosophy say they think this added amou of money f unemployment is discouraging people from staying on the job, encouraging th to ay on unemployment. that's why they want to bring it down to a lower amount. but, judy, democrats raise a couple of points on their own. they say if you ange this amount at all from the $600 to anything else, that alone will take weeksta

for unemployment offices to adjust to. and if you change the entire way of going about it, say to a percentage months., that could take judy, while the deadline for this money runs out friday, technically many of these states have already said that they will not issue this money in the next check. so, judy,e beca congress hasn't acted on the unemployment benefits, we know a week from today, people gettingun ployment benefits will see $600 less. congress may try and back-fill that later, but right w there will be a gap for those familie >> woodruff: well, lisa, with so many peop dependent on whether it is these extended expanded unemployment benefits, or other aspects of this relief plan, when does it look aif there could be an agreement, a deal? >> lisa: let's look at the calendar. it is very tight, judy.he is monday, congress on friday faces that unemploymentwhdeadline money runs out for these enhanced benefits.

daen if you look at the next on the calendar, that is the end of the first week of august. that's wen congrets to leave, almost until november. on our minds?er dates are august 17th, that's en the democratic convention begins. so congress really is trying to get all of this done in two weeksment but, judy, they are very far apart. republicans done even agree amongst themselves. it is not clear thathis proposal i talked to you about could pass amongst republicans, much like democrats, who are sitting down with republicans to see if they camake a deal. they're very far apart at this moment. certainly does sound like it. i know you're bog t going to be watching it. finally, lisa, today is the today that the united states capital, member of the congress se say farewell to john lewis. i know you've coved him, and talked to so many members. what does losing him mean to them? >> lisa: this was a ofound moment, i think,

for most every member of congress in both parties.u ow, representative lewis is the first african-american to lie in ste in the capital row rotundo, and others have lying in state as annot official. so it is a high official. senator tim scott, another was a hero's farewell and deserved. >> woodruff: certainly so. lisa desjardins covering it all for us. thank you, lisa. >> lisa: you're welcome. >> woodruff: protestors and police again clashed in number of u.s. cities over the weekend. in portland, the trump administration is reportedly sending more federal agents to ttohe citeal with nightly confrontations there, according to the "washington post." as anma nawaz reports, some of the crow initially

protested the killing of georgeo floyd are now onfronting intense federal force. >> nawaz: in the pre-dawn hours on the streets of portland, clashes intensified between protestors and federal agents. those agents used tear gas tod try ansperse crowds from a federal courthouse. the building has become a llying point for protest against police violence. >> i just came here to try to hold the people who are supposed to be keing us safe accountable for their atrocious actions that they've been committing on the city for over >> black lives tter! >> nawaz: since the killing of george floyd, portland's seen regular demonstrations overwhelmingly peaceful, against police brutality and racial injustice. >> feds go home! >> nawaz: but since the arrival of federal officers from the department of homeland security three weeks ago, tensions have escalated, leading to more confrontations in the streets. a sunday demonstration that began peacefully, ramped up

overnight. protesters shot fireworks at t responded with teas.ers demonstrators held umbrellas as shields and used leaf blowers to today, portland police say they found molotov cocktails and loaded rifle magazines in a park. on sunday, acting seetary of the department of homeland wsecurity, chf said what federal agents faced w beyond" rmal criminal activity." >> they're coming armed with rocks, bottles, baseball bats, power tools, commercial grade fireworks, eliciting that violen violence on federal courthouses and federal law enforcement officers. >> nawaz: earlier this morning, president trump defended the administration's res tweeting "we are protecting federal property." though peaceful protests continue across th icountry, ports one of a handful of cities that saw episodes of violence this weekend. in seattle, social mideo shows police pepper-spraying

protesters. one officer swgs at a demonstrator with a club. in oakland, california, l fioteste a courthouse on re. in richmond, virgini vehicles were set ablaze. outside denv, in aurora, colorado, two people were shot and wounded after a car drove through a protest. and, in austin, texas, one protester was shot and killed, after a motorist plowed into the crowd. police say the driver was also the gunman. federal authorities blame protestors, and say the violence justifies their increased presence. but demonstrators and many city leaders say that presence is aking matters worse. as we mentioned, seattle is one of the cities that has seen street demonstrations grow inbo size and intensity in recent days.nn durkan is seattle's democratic mayor, and joins me now. >> mayor durkin, thanks welcome to "newshour." a

lot of protestors in seattle said they were out in the streets because ofhe what saw unfolding in portland. now the that administration says there is going to be more federal agents going to portland, what do you think the affect will be in your city, in seattle? >> mayor: i think it i going to have a negative impact in seattle and in portland a in cities across the country. i've talked to other mayors, and a number of people saw escalating protests both in size and in intensity. in seattle, people clearlyin said they because of what was happening in portland. in fact, the largest protest was degnated as a protest in solidarity with portland. i think adding agents is the wrong direction in portland. i think that we need to have a strategyoehat not escalate tensions but actually resolves them. >> woodruff: let me a you about some of your conversations with theon administrayou had been in touch with chad wolf, and you made it clear you don't want

federal agents coming to seattle. by friday, there were reports that federal aents had deploy tactical team to seattle. help us understand when and how did you learn that ere were federal agents in your city? i spoke with the acting secretary, made it clear to him whatti our po was, and he told me that they were not going to surge agents to seattle, he did not see the need to we thenearned shortly after that from media reports that agents had, indeed, in seattle. we asked for clarification. we have gotten somenc assu they are there just on standby, if there federald at a property. but we've had additional conversations, bh with the united states attoey here, with the department of homeland security, and we also asked for congressional help because we want to have clear understanding what the federal agents are going to be doing here. the worst thing for seattle wod be if things escalated like they did in

portland. and we really want toat avoid th we're urging all protestors to be peaceful, but we're also urging the please, we don't nou to take the steps here in seattle that you're taking in poeland. it is rong thing for seattle. >> woodruff: mayor durkin, since there are already federal agents i your city, do you know how many? what their mandate is, do you know if they have arrested anyone? >> mayor: to our knowledge, they have not arrested anne, nor have they been doing any visible operations. we have not had any direct protests at those federal facilies, so it is unclear w many agents are there or what postake they would it is one reason we're continuing to ask for clarification from the department of homeland security, to make sure that we don't see the kind of surge and escalation here in attle that we have seen continually in artland. but re also planning as if that could occur, and taking the steps we need to do to make sure that the community

undepotands what the ntial is, and really asking people to protest peacefully. you know, we want to make sure thatnoonly do we not have that kind of escalation, but it seems in portland th there are two people, the federal having the fight, and there are some people in and giving them the fight. and we don't want that happening in seattle. >> woodruff: mayor durkin, your critics will point to the fact that protestors several weeks ago that basically taken control of a tofew do city blocks. your city police had to go in earlier this month clear that area. and there was already concern about violence nd.r the wee the police chief called it a riot on saturday night. do you think that the presence of federal forces could help quell these protests before they getou of control, and something similar to what happened before happenshe again, protestors are able to take over some chunk of city space? >> mayor: i think when you saw that the area on

tcapitol hill te were able to return to normal, that our police wen able to go there and clear that area with verye lit conflict, and restore it back to a pla that all of the neighborhood and businesses could enjoy it. contrast to what is going on in portland. where night after night after night it is proven that what they're doing is not working. they have not quelled to the contrary, they have escalated it. so i do not believe there is any evidence whatsoever that any of the strategieses that the ent is trying to employ will lead and i don't think he wants it to. he has been very clear thathat he is doing is targeting cities that are leby democrats to show that there can be division and theaw lack of and order so that he can run on that as a president.of that kin political maneuvering of law enforcement really is unamerican, and i thi it

is dangerous for us to go down tha path. >> woodruff: mayordu in, very briefly, you weren't told before the current federal team was sent in, and do you have any noti any further deployment? mayor: the assistant secretary said he would cua the policcall the police ant if posture changed. there is one person guiding the activities of thministration, and that's the president of the united states. so regardless of asrances that anyone else might give me or any other loca government official, we have to entake the pres at his word. and he keeps escalating ics rhetand then the behavior follows thator rh. so as a mayor of a city, i will tell you, i do need the federal government's help. i need more testing for covid-19. i need to make sure that as this health emergency gets worse, that my hospitals can withstand it. i need the kids who are

not going to beack in school to be able to learn. that's the kind of help we need from this feral vernment that we don't get. a president should st forward and ld the nation. and instead, he is viding the nation. i think it is a really dangerous time for america to be on this poi of inflecon in our history, and our choices today willpp decide what s for generations of americans to come. >> woodruff: that is the mayor of seattle, jenny durkan, joining us tonight. thank you so much, madam mayor. >> mayor: thank you very much. ♪ >> woodruff: this week marks the 30th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act, a groundbreaking law tt prohibits discrimination based on disability. the legislation has been invaluable for what it changed, but significant obstacles still

exist for those who have physical or mental impairments of any kind. fo in 1990, it guaranteed new protectionswork, education, access, and tranortation, among her rights. many of the physical accomodations thatare now common place only came to pass after the a.d.a. became law. in fact, as seen in the netflix documentary "crypt camp," it took longer to guarantee these basic civil rights than it did for other groups, including black americans, latinos, and asians. and a generation of advocates took to the streets to demonstrate and protest through the 1970s and '80s. but even after all of this me, the challenges for people with disabilities remain enormous. just 32% of working-age

americans with disabilities have a job. people with disabilities also live in poverty at more than twice the rate of people without disabilities. we're going to exple these questions more in a moment. but first the "news hour" spoke with a number of americans and asked them toect on what it means to live with a disability today. >> my name is brittany >> my name is britney wilson. i'm from brooklyn, new york. i'm a disabled civil rights attorney. i have cerebral palsy. >> my name is bill krebs. i live in philadelphia, pennsylvania. i am a person with a disability myself. you may not know it. it's a hidden disability. >> my name is elizabeth bostic i am first and foremost the of king james.nd humble servant he has a rare disease called connector's, which is used by severe jaundice at birth. >> i'm jen deecinwater. i'm zen of the cherokee i'm also bisexual rit and i am multiply disabled with chroniillnesses.

>> my name is alice wong and i'm a disabled activist in san cisco. >> my name is max barrows. i am a persohe autism spectrum. and i speak up for people with thdisabilities throughou state. >> i think it's safe tsay that my life wouldn't be anything that it is right now, because the a.d.a literally gave me my rights as a disabled person. the fact that i was able to attend law school a receive accommodations and to be employed as an attorney. but i think also as a civil rights lawyer in parcular, i know the limitations of the law. and that's what a.d.a. is. at the end of the day, it's just a statue. it gave us the bare minimum, which is our rights and rights are not anything if they are not enforceable. >> before that, the a.d.a., we didn't have no education. we were never heard. never seen.

did anything. employment was the hardest thing for people wh disabilities. we were placed in sheltered anrkshop programs, where we just sat therdid nothing. we did some minimum wage jobs we may make a wholar. i was there for 10 years of my life. i thought as a person with a disabilityuld go nowhere. so i started being a self advocate. >> when i think about the a., you know, the key wo for me is access. and that, coupled with a number of other disability laws, really have everyone the ability to access to whatever tools were necessary, any reasonable accommodations when necessary to belyble to live as independe as possible. and so as his mother, of course, one of my primary concerns is can he effectively comnicate his wants, his needs. to live the life that wants to live in, to be in charge of it. and so a lot of technology has been built as a result of that because there was a demand for it. >> one of the caveats of the a.d.a was to try to stop the institutionalization of disabled people.

well, that's not really ended. like, yes, we do have more options, but disabled people are being institutionalized all the time. i can't tell you ther of times i've had medical providers or health care workers try to put me in a nursing home. i don't need to be in a nursing home.su just mak i have a disability accessible apartment home health aide. and i can mostly get by on my own. the pandem, my right toly with edalthcare and to be prote from discrimination is really important. i am legit worried about coming down with covid-19 and not being priority or considered a life worth saving. and these attitudes will not be fixed by a law. these are larger, more difficult cultural changes that need to

happen. and that takes time. >> we're still not seen as independent or productive people in many areas because we rarely are given the opportunity to prove ourselves. people should let us be in the driver's seat of ming decisions for ourselves. and who knows us better than we know ourselves. >> woodruf let's look at the changes and challenges with a pair of activists from two judy heumann is a lifelong civil rights activist. she sued the new york city board of education to become the city's first teacher to use a wheelchair. she led numerous protests to buildings to become more accessible. and she served as a special advisor on disability rights for the u.s. state department. and keri gray helped organize pele with disabilities in protest last month in front of the whithouse as part of

"black disabled lives matter". she is wh the american association of people with disabilities. >> woodruff: and we welcome both of you to the "news hour." judjudy heumann, this has been a cause to you going back to your days as a teenager. what is thi particular anniversary mean for you when you think about thebu contons of the a.d.a.? >> i think the americansth isabilities act is an amazingly important ece of legislation. it has allowed us, as disabled people, to see that our coalition work, over the fodecades 1990, resulted in an tknowledgment on the part of the congrest discrimination was pervasive across the united states, and it needed to intervene to grant us our rights. that being said,ike many of the previous speakers have said, granting ghts and really being able to be accepted by society is

somethinglhat we're st striving for. and i think when we look at the built-in environment, including interpreters and captioning and other types of accommodations, other than ment employment, we have made really great progress. and when we look at the data, it speaks an amazing amount about how much furthewehave to go. and those figures e-are vid. >> woodruff: and keri gray, you have grown up under this law. what has it meant to you? >>the a.d.a. has meant a lot of different things. i think one of the firstth gs i think about is the a.d.a., what has it done for inclusion and perception. so we know that one in five people across the united states have a disability, but it is ill not widely known that disability is not just the summation ofour medical condition, but it is a legal term that givesac yoss to your human

rights. i mention that because disability often used as a description thats defiople's relationship to their physical and mental health, and often that nature -ost people don't get excited or feel empowered about having to ntly assess the health. there are a lot of people with disabilities that have rough stories aboutes all of the ions that people can have around, like, how much can this person do and contribute to society? so i think for me, t one of the fiings that i think about, outside of the specifics of the a.d.a., is just how it ensures that we're defining disability as a legal term that grants people access to human rights. so i'm excited about what has done, and how much more we're going to do moving forward. >> woodruff: picking up on that, judy, when you said -- you said there is a difference -- it is one thing to be granted the right; it is another thing to be truly accepted. so pick up on that.

>> one of the positive parts of the ada is theth growing stref the disability rights movement, the depth of the movement, the racial diversity of the movement that is comingforward, the sexual orientation, religion, on and on, people are more able to come forward and be theirll selves, including have disability as a central part of who we are. disability as a negative. i think more and more people areooking at disability as a natural, normal part of life, and something we do not want to be seen as a medicalit con, but rather as part of the civil rights movement, fighting not just for the rights of disabled people, but for e rights of all people who are marginalized. >> woodruff: and keri gray, those are exactly the kinds of things hear when i talk to people with disabilities of all ages, generation.lly the younger when you think about

priorities during your e they?e, what what do you most want to see change? >> i think the are two areas that i'm thinking of in particular. one, employment is so important to people aoss our country. we're having to figure out, how do we survive, how do we take care of ourselves, how we thrive, even, as people with disabilities, and also people with dibilities who have other existing identities, such as race and gender and so many different things. and so employment becomes a question and a situation that all of us h to explore. i think that we have seen that the a.d.a. has given us a lot of aess to make sure that we can defend ourselves when situations of discrimination do occur. >> i think it is everyone. everyoneas a stake in this. the entities that are not allowed to discriminate need to understand not only what discriminetion

is,he to understand what the remedies are. and i think in many cases -- and covid is a great example -- people being denied the right to work at home wave disabilities or didn't have disabilities, and how we were able to really quickly convert over to virtual. now, i'm not sasaying ed people should only work virtually at all, but i am saying when a crisis occurred, people were ae to do thingsey aid they couldn't do before. i believe it is very important to the makeure that their human resource people understand at their obligations are, that they're staff are trained. i also think it is very important at the general citizen in the united rstatescognizes that disability is something that we can acquire at any point in our lives. it is not a threatening comment. it is a reality commen and so in part, what we're saying is: learn from us, work with us, and help us

move forward in our lives, and help you prepare for your future li, or othe loved ones in your family. >> woodruff: and keri,o am curiousnow how you ree -- where you see the onsibility lies for making these changes that need to be made? >> i abtely agree with judy. everyone has to do their part to ensur that w not only have this piece of legislation, but that it is being enforced throughout eveone's entities. so as an individual, we have to get to the point where we are documenting our experiences and we're speaking out against any situation that can be harmfuto us as individuals and our community. the company has to make sure that the understand what their role is in this, and how they can be creative and create environments that are inclusive of all people, includg people with disabilities. so i think when all of us play our role,t, governm companies, the individual, we are actually gettings

towahat journey and access of full disability rights. >> we have a long way to go. >> woodruff: well, it is something for all of us to think about on this 30th anniversary of the a.d.a. i do hope all americans spend some time thinking about their responsibility. judy heumann, keri gray, >> thank you.h. >> thank you. >> woodruff: india has reported more than one million covid cases, a number exceeded only by the u.s. and brazil. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports on the situation in india's capital, delhi.t it's p his series, agents for change. >> namaste. >> namaste. a>> reporter: these women india's foot soldiers in the fight against the coronavirus. >> kai hai? >> reporter: their job: to find and help those with symptoms.

they are called accredited workers.vists or asha in remote villages, in cramped urren slums, across india mo dean one million women like bhagwan and kundan devi fan out on foot each day.nd until the ic, they would mostly check on pregnant women or see that children are up to date on their shots. >> ( translated ): put your mask on! >> reporter: now they also have a more dangerous mission. >> ( translated ): we r ve to check tients, check their charts, we bring them oximeters, take their daily readings. reporter: this, they ad with little guidance, or even protective gear from the authorities. >> ( translated ): masks. if masks are available we get them, otherwise we have to buy our own, and gloves, if we want glov, we're on our own. >> reporte global health experts say asha workers are a key-but so far poorly-utilized-p resource to heontain the coronavirus in a country struggling to emerge from a three-month lockdown.

traffic has been slowly returning to delhi's streets ang shops have to open. the crowds are much smaller than pre-covid times, except in food markets. here, social distancing is just not an optio like much of urban india, this city is bracing itself. hospitals across india have been overwhelmed with covid cases. in delhi a temporary 500 bed overlfow facility, with limited medical equipment, has been set up for people suffering covid symptoms. there's also a new, 10,000 bed quarantine center, the world's largest. many of the city's 20 milln residents live in crowded single room spaces. >> 30% of the people don't have spare rooms,f they have covid at their homes. >> reporter: i reached manish fsodia, delhi's deputy ch minister. >> for people who feel some any discomfort, even if they are in

asymptomatic conditionthey can be brought to these centers. >> reporter: as delhi prepares for a surge in covid cases, thers been little evidence o any surge in economic activity, several weeks after the lockdown ende >> sir, there's no work, there's just no work. >> reporter: across the city each morning tradesmen wait at labor chowks, or exchanges, for employers or their agents to come by with work fers, usually in construction. like the majority of workers in india's economy they are informal, or off the books, paid by the day. so no work means no pay. >): i have three daughters, our family is in a terrible situation. we get food from here and there. and i'm not alone-all poor people are in this situation. >> the poor often suffer the least ability to gain access to basic essential services during those periods. >> reporter: raj panjabi is a harvard physician who alsoeads

last mile health, a group that serves hard to reach regions in developi countries. panjabi says the government ended the lockdown to ease the extreme economic hardship but it for covid and critically isn'tle properly tracing contacts of those who test positive. >> essentially what happens is that one person goes on to infect three people, and if that scenario plays out just 10 times e first case will have led to more than 59,000 cases. but if any one of those first few patients was isolated, you dramatically stop the transmission. >> frankly it was hard to manage cause in india systems are not online. online, he admits had at being rough start. test results took two to three days, allowing infections to spread. testing capacity still lags far behind cities like new york, but it has quadrupled since the early days, with a fleet of mobile units testing some 25,000 people per day, and with quicker results

>> now you can get the result in maximum one hour. so, that is helping. >> reporter: india's government is also touting an app that lets smartphone owners knany nearby active covid cases. the government says its had 100 million downloads. >> no, i don't have it. >> reporter: the problem is not everyone owns a smartphone, including many asha workers. ey officially classified as volunteers, so they get no benefits and a monthly stipend as low as 1000 rupees or about 13 dollars >> ( translated ): i don't have the salary, i can buy gloves or what do i do?or feed myself, we're scared because if they're positive, we have to their bodies, we can only hope that we don't become sick.tr >> ( slated ): for all the extra work with coronavirus, we get nothing. the 1000 rupees we get, will that even buy medicines if i get sick? >> we've neglectedhese frontline and community health workers and often we've neglected women in the

workforce, especially poor men. >> reporter: dr. panjabi says asha workers could be a huge asset since they're id positioned to do contact tracing. but the reality on the ground is not that simple. asha workers have been attacked or more commonly just ignored. >> ( translated ): only sterday, i was told, don come near the gate, just leave as quickly as you can. i said, i'll stand on the ro, just give me your name and phone number and tell me if this person came by or didn's come by, thll you have to tell me. they wouldn't say anything. >> reporter: experts say there's a pressing need for public education. misinformation abounds about coronavirus and how its spread, leading to social stigma, or as we found at the labor site. >> ( translated ): wt do i think about coronavirus? i have nothing to eat! >> reporter: i'll more likelybe die from hungere i get coronavirus, he says. for the pbs newshour, with rakesh nagar in delhi, this is fred de sam lazaro in st. paul, minnesota.

>> woodruff: there are less than 100 days until president trump faces voters for reelection in john yang has thiss analysis of where things stand. >> yang: judy, to mark that moment, we are joined by our politics monday team amy walter is national etor of the cook political report and hosts the podcast "politics with amy walter." and tamara keith is a white house coreondent for npr and a co-host of the "npr politics podcast." >> you're a hundred days out -- whoa, excuse me. we are 100 days out. polls show that vice

present biden den is is leading the president not only nationally but also in the battleground states. i have so many democtic voters come up to me and ask me, given what time different than 2016. tam, what should i tell? th >> well, there are a lot pyou can say is that this has been a very stable lead for former vice president biden, and the other thing th is notable and is different from the case in 2016, is that a lot of these polls are showing him above 50%. that is to say that he has got a majory of voters saying that if the election were held today they would votefor him. for hillary clinton, she did, at times, have pretty significant leads over donald trump, but she was, you know, at 45%. there was room there in a way that biden has a more commanding lead. of course, anything can

happen, anytng can change the trump campaign insists that the polls are totally skewed. but the other thing that is different is the obvious thing thatis different: there is a pandemic. it is affecting everyone's life. and the president's leadership is a major issue in this campaign, and it is something tinhat is wei heavily on voters, as relates to the coronavirus. >> amy, tam said chthings cage. the cliche is 100 things politics.rnity in what can change? >> well, i've been asking almost every single campaign strategist that i talk with that very question. and, first of all, it is important to re tgnize that o 100 days, it is true it is a less than 100 days until we get to the actual election day. but a lot ofte s start sending out absentee ballots in a little over a month. the state of north carolina sends out its

e llots. so peoll be receiving ballots in the mail in a lot of these states before we even hit october, so that is a very important thing. mind is what happens on my the pandemic, on the coronavirus pandemic, as tam pointed out correctly, this is what is driving everything, and it was the major difference between now20 an. but even if something changes, there is a vaccine that is clearly in the works that maybe gets to go out early 2021, maybe as schools open, thingson't turn out as badly as some people are expecting. the real question in my mind is whether voters are going to giv trump any credit for this. he has lost a lot of credibility on this issue. we have seen his numbers sink now to something like 35%, 36% approval rati on h has handled the coronavirus. voters, especially theve

swing vote voters, just shut the door, saying he mishandled this, he mishandled the george floyd protests, i'm not going to give hiany credit, even if things start to go in the right >> tam, amy talks about how the pandemic has changed everything. it even has changed the conventions. the conventions are more hats and confetti guns and balloon drops. they are a time to get organized, a time to generate excitement. the democrats are saying they're going to have virtually -- a 100% virtual convention. the repus' plans are still up in the air. what difference is this going to make t the compaigns, to the fall campaign? >> traditionally, thenv tions are multi-day prime time infomercials for the candidates to make their case for the voters, unfiltered, right th are the networks all going to carry this in the same

way? maybe not. are they going to have all of theseg volunteers com in, getting excited, going back intoei communities. you know, the strongest activists in the party? no that's not happening. this is a very differentsi ation, a very weird situation. the other thing i would just point out is in some ways, the convtions have become a metaphor. the democratic party realized early on that they likely would need to have a virtual convention,th an've been planning for one. the republican party and searching for a place where they could hold a traditional convention, so they cld rub it in t faces of democrats, that they had an in-person convention, they weren't and they weren't wearing, masks. and that backfired. and it is not clear that they have a -- you know, a whiz-bang virtual convenon in the offing. they may well pull it off, but it is a metaphor for how these things have been

going. >> amy, is this putting pressure on the republicans, now that the democrats have this virtual pl van, thtual convention plan? >> when you look back over the last22 years, what you find is incumbent presidents really get a bump from the convention. it is usually the challengers that do -- for example, bilclinton got a huge bump after the convention, his convention in 1992. so the pressure is really on tai biden ca, and quite frankly i think that will be more fascinating, in hpart because wee never had a virtual convention, and never have we gone into a convention where the presumive nominee has spent so little time actually in front of voters. t this is goin be the first opportunity for most voters to actually get a sense of into this guy is, and to see him in a very different kind of environment, but still in a public environment like we haven't seen him before. >> amy walter, and thank

you to tamara keith for the assist and the introduction. that's politics monday. >> woodruff: fally, during this anniversary week for the a.d.a., we wanted to take a moment to highlight the talents and work of performers, writers and artis with disabilities. their work was featured in a special ceremony streameover facebook called "a.d.a. 30 lead on here are a few moments from the evening, which had a format muce variety show. and it included present bush's speech when he signed e law. it's part of our ongoing arts and culture coverage, canvas. >> i now lift my pen to sign this american with disability act and say may thisful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down. >> there are so many other things that i want to thank the a.d.a. for but the most important thing the thing that i

love the best about the a.d.a. is that i got to cut the lines at disney. >> free our people! >> what's wrong with your little girl? is what people in the town would ask my grandmother. >> i have the body of a fightera who's constantwar i get knocked down 100 times and rise a hundre when you are someone slight different people say tngs to beware like why pursue a job when they don't want you to be there. there's a little piece of wisdom, passed around from passedround from friend to friend, that whatever doesn't inkill us makes us strongehe end. >> i actually just turned 45.

okay, like two years ago. and i know a lady is not supposed to tell her age but i don't care because at least i am still at my birth weight. >> ♪ somewhere over the inbow, skies are blue and the dreams ♪ that you dare to dream really do come true ♪ >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. for all of us at t, pbs newshourank you, please stay safe, and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

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